Overheated planet update: Newsweek says that Mongolia has suffered "A decade of devastatingly harsh winters followed by very dry summers"

A decade of devastatingly harsh winters followed by very dry summers has crippled the livelihoods of livestock-dependent herders, who make up a third of the country’s population. Tens of thousands have migrated into city slums, while thousands of others have turned to illegal gold mining in their fight for survival. [Via I.G.]